Immigration Office. Hobart Town, 9th October, I860. THE Hiring of the Female IMMIGRANTS, per " Isles ot tho South," &amp;lt;yfil commence at 10 o'clock on THURSDAY, tho 11th ¡nat. Those parties to whoin authority to biro has been issued, aro requested to present the printed form on board, and applications will be received, at this Office until further notice. G. SMITH, oil Immigration Agent« £5 REWARD. WHEREAS an advertisement appeared in the Mercury signed " JOHN BAIN," The above reward will he paid on discovery of the author of the said advertisement. Apply to JOHN BAIN, New Wharf. Steam Pleasure Trip to New Norfolk. THE FAVOURITE Steamer « MONARCH" »will, (weather permitting,} s? mako an Excursion to New Norfolk, on MONDAY next, the 15th instant, leaving the Old Wharf, Ho- bart Town, at half-past 10 a.m., and New Nor- folk at 4 p.m. Tickets for the trip 5s., Children 2s. 6d, LUTTRELL &amp; WISE, Old Wharf, 9th Ootober. I860. The celebrated Cart stallion Markig WIL5 ,P±V J...

COMMERCIAL. HOBART TOWN MARKETS. Mercury Office, Wednesday Afternoon. Wheat remains at 8s 3d to 8s 6d, but the quantity offering is inconsiderable. Oats and barley continue very dull of sale. There is a good demand for potatoes at £8 to ¿¡9 per ton. Hay is much the same as before, loose at Ü5 10s to £6 10s per ton according to quality, and country prosscd at io to JEC. The demand for flour for local requirements is steady at £20 per ton for first qualities. The Case of the Union Bank.-A Practical Suaar.STioN.--Wo take the following from tho Econo- mist oi'tiio 21st July:-"The case of tho Union Bank is rather suspended than determined, and wo would givo no opinion iib to its merits-of which indeed jt is not possible lo know anything of much vulua without a careful p»iru»nl of tjioiv deed of irenMamwnl, on which fwytMnß mm turn. Til« ease-, howeve, is a very hard one. The Union Bank is alraost the only one which could have provided for a loss of £250,000 out of its 'lurptai nrofits-ou...

THE INEXPEDIENCY OF MARITIME ARSENALS. [PEOM THE ECONOMIST, ítttV l4/j It seems certain that We do 'too much on the sea coast. We have concentrated at .our great naval stations. Bitch as Portsmouth and Plymouth, not only the machinery Uoedful for constructing ships and repairing ships, but also our depots, of naval storcB, our victualling yards, our rope yards, and I our timber yards ; wo have made of them not only naval docks, which they must be, but naval arsenals, great storehouses of material, which Uley need not be. Wo have not only put together there our ships of war, but we havo manufactured lhere all the multifarious and complicated gear that belongs to those ships. We have done on the seâ-cofcst not only that which can be done nowhere else, but much also which could bo done evorywhere else, if not quite so conveniently, yet) on the whole, substan- tially as well. We have, in truth, half forgotten that the sea coast is our exposed frontier, and it is very natural that wo sho...

MISCELLANEOUS SHIPPING. : . ; TRIAL TRIP OF THE LEINSTER. Tho mail boats orthe City of Dublin Steam Packet Company, which havo run so long and regularly, in all weathers, between Holyhead and Kingstown, are about to be superseded. The "time" between London and Dublin-we aro ceasing to speak of distance-is *o be shortened to lo3s than 11 hours; I and the old steamers, though safe vessels of their ' class, havo long been considered too slow for the service. Their style, build, and fittings aro familiar I to thousands ; but they aro on the evo of disappear- ing, and those who maka their fust voyage to the I aster island after the 1st August will do so in au entirely new class of steamers, almost as different from the prosent vessels as the galley of Cleopatra from a Thames lighter. That they arc propelled by steam is the only point in which they resemble each other. In size, build, power, Bpced, and all the interior accommodations, the new vessels of the company aro extraordinary irnji...

TION IN THE NAVY. [l'HOM THE TIMES, JULY 2G.] Theio mc at least nome advantages m that seesaw system of piuty government which wastes oui tuno and spoils the best menâmes by the necessity loi opposition, and which pi events a Munster iiom pioposing uny substantial good it he should foiasco thut it is open to suino plausible objection It is ti uo thut a pin ty Go\ em- inent is tile most conscivntivo m U»; whole woild, foi evoiy little mtciobt luis tho powei ot delaying any letoiui, andtluugs which shock ovoiy ono'b common sense continue unchecked and un i hanged because it would cost a fight to lemovo them But still this ctuions zigzag plan oí Ins and Outs has its advantages Thus, when it statesman is in ofltce ho sees a gi eat many oula ho cannot hopo to loniedy,and endciivoia only to eo\ei up ciueiully and keop cnucciilcd, but the tuin of tho bahineo comes, lind out ho goes fico iib lui, pinned with nil he lins leiunt, and with full iijsIidIo um It ii,;fiiu8t his immy who Ihih just...

ITALIAN UNITY. - [FnOif tfrfB TIMES 13 JÜXY.] , '[ Italian unity was two years ago the wild dream of distempered minds. It was a-S'ciated with secret societies and daggers und mysterious assassinations. To-day it is passing tío ntpldly from a state of fiction into a state of renhty that the world's belief can hardly keep pate wi1 h its progress. We are olliged continually to re- mind ourselves that the 1st of January, 1859, was the beginning of all things, that we have only just seen the first anniversary of the Battle of Solferino, that the Peace of Villafranca is. but twelve months old, that the possession by Pied* mont of all Lombardy and the Duchies, and of Tuscany, and of a good part of the Slate» of the Church,is a thiigof yesterday. The, pace is tremendous. We should like to stand still for a moment and realize this new state: of ,things and collin the consequences; butnr» such pause is allowed us. Sicily joins tho gene* ral dance. What special attracti ra there h m Victor Em...

I THE ORGAN AT ST. ANDREW'S. Peruai'o at no period in ecclesiastical history has the fact of tho relations between the intellectual and the' emotional, in man viewed as a religious being, received a more rational recognition than the present. In the mutual protests ofantagonistic theories and forms of worship, the harmony of truth has been often obscured, and sacrificed to ex- tremes. The early result of tho Reformation, iu countries and amongst sections of the Christian Church where the doctrines of the new faith were carried out to what was regarded at the time to be their legitimate lengths, was to divorce Worship | from Art j to make the service of the Sanctuary a purely intellectual act, and to unclothe it of all those accessories by which in the gorgeous rites of Catholicism the senses of man had been impressed and' his material emotions called into play. Amongst tlie aids to worship which the zeal of this ardent Protestantism proscribed, was the instru- mental music which had...

TUE AUSÎRÎA&amp; ÎîEÏCHSIÏÀTlf. (FROM ¿HÜ'IiÖE&amp;lt;&amp;lt; .&amp;lt;ULT al/] The collisions of despotism have struck otu a few spinks "f liberty. The blind and confused j instincts fif ttíStí«9iieíSi ambition, and military insolence which prevail în fïnrope are at last weakening the foundations of abso/i/tö fiavret, and forcing rulers to court the people whose good will cm alone defend the throne in time of need" 'fife spectasla of a Neapolitan King hoisting tlfc flag which Is his reproach, and fulfill}» to' Ms councils ilie moitwliofft he hates, may no1 inspire to willi much enthusiasm,- arid yet ii is' a triumph1 Absoluto' go+èfnnïent m list bo in danger when i Bourbon Crfmarilla speaks the language of Palmerston or Cavour. But the most pleasing reflect! >n is that the military potentates have done it all themselves Honest men are getting their due because another clasi cannot help falling out. Certainly the Emperor of the French, winn some two yeal s ayo he...

THE BUSINESS OP PARLIAMENT. TraOM THE TIMES, HíH jütt 1 There is a road whi h is said to be paved with good intentions, and a French gentleman of great no niiul wealth one j papered his rooms with assignats. Slionld the House of Commons ever want this style of decoration,- it will find it in its own abandoned measures. At the begin- ning of July it invariably happens that some score oí unexceptionable and healthy Bills, against which hardly a word has been spoken or a suspicion of their vitality expressed, suddenly cease to exist and are no more. A sort of falling sickness seizes the whole crowd. Like traders keeping up appearances to the last, they show themselves in the Notices one day and are gazetted as dropped measures the next. It is commonly called " the massacre of the inno- cents ;" but in July a Bill lus generally seen a good deal of the world, knows its right hand from its left, and has natural longings for matu- rity and work It would be more proper to take our images fr...

ALTERED TONE OF DIPLOMACY. (roan Tilla TIMES, JULY. 11') Foreign affairs, and the way in which they arc treated by politicians, seem at present to partake of a kind of brusqueness to which they were formerly stranger»« Under the guidance of Wellington and Louis Philippe, Metternich and Nesselnde* th .European machine worked easily. Its action w'as stew} it sometimes uceracd almost to cease altogether, «na when in motion there was plenty of oil and plenty J skilful engineers. Excepting the absorption of Cracrow, no serious breach Was made in the European system for many years before '48, and the despatches of Secretaries and Ambassadors were written with all thetagueness and decorum of a Queen's speech. But in these times thero aro more stirring events, and statesmen of a less , urbane character. The Emperor Napoleon has tom some treaties, and is vehemently suspected of meditating evil to others. His subordinates are not so much ministers at tools ; or rather they are secretaries iu ...

LAUNCESTON. SUPREME COURT. - CRIMINAL SITTINGS, Saturday, October 7Tki Before His Honor Sir Valentine" Pluming, Knight, ' Chief Justice. ' Thoms Eobs was placed at the bar, charged with having, on the 5th July, committed au unnatural oflbnee. His Honor, on the application of tho Crown Solicitor, remanded the prisoner till the next sessions, in order that the child (the principal witness) whom lie (the learned judge) was ol' opinion was not sufficiently impressed with reli- gious teaching to fully Understand tho nature of dn oath, might rdceivo the necessary instruction btítwebn tills inlet the next session. James M'Donald was charged with having on f.l18 15th September, forged a cheque for SA 7s. tid. ; a second count charged him with uttering the same, knowing it to bo forged. It appeared that the prisoner tendered a cheque mi the Bank of Australasia, dated 1-tth September, tor £i Us. 8d., purporting lo be sign by W. Clerke, Newry Mills, Longford, and payable from one James Hill, t...

f MUNICIPAL COUNCIL. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER lOrir, 18P0. I A bpeciil meeting of the Council was held at 4 o'clock foi tlio piupo«c of receiving the lepoit of tho Coinlnittcb lippomted to inspect the bpiingi, at Mount WclUngton on 'lucsdnj morning 'liiere woic pioscnt the Ri^ht Woishipful the MnyOi Aldei men Rheuben, Cusp Mm doch Lipscombe, Butlei, Stowmt Lewis andSealnook Hie Committee lopoited that tbcj had inspected the Spiings an I consideied the tinco plans of biipply pioposed by Mi Cfilo b plan, anil they stiongly i ("commended plan No J, winch could be woil ed foi less than .£40,000 and would du nish a good supply of excellent spring wiitoi without any diversion oí the waters nliendy used, und without lcndeun^ the Corpoiu'ion hnblc to compensation, exc(pv to a vcrj small amount Aldeiman Lipscomoc explained some vii it in detail the advantages of the plan lecoininendod, and nun ed the adoption of the Rcpoit, congintu litmg tee Council on the position they had attained m leleionceto...